Green Knuckle: Citra
Cellarmaker Brewing Company in Oakland, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Series|
Score
7.11
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can purchased at Out of the Barrel. Clear yellow with small white head. Overt dank grass aroma. Flavor is grassy and interesting fruit. I normally don’t like Citra - but the beer description is spot on in that this does not have some of the butyric aspects that I get from single-hop Citras.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at Cellarmaker. It pours a mostly clear light golden color with a white head. The aroma is very dank and spicy with some herbals, grapefruit and mango. The flavor is oily with more grapefruit, light peppery and herbal hops. Dank as all get out. Heavy mango and earth. Interesting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
The color is a pale golden yellow. It’s a bit hazy. Medium white head, a touch fizzy. The bubbles dissipate fairly quickly and leave little lacing behind. The aroma is full of monster hop juiciness. It’s like huffing a bag full of Citra. There’s a definite hop greenness to it, but the beer pulls it off quite well. I think the other backing hops rein in the harsher, more vegetal flavors that crop up in a lot of wet hopped beers. There’s a lot of sweet fruitiness in there. Big on peach, pineapple, mango, papaya, grape, tangerine, melon, a lighter lime edge, a little blackberry. It’s all sweet and juicy. Candied fruit hops. No real malt presence is noticeable. This is a hop party. Taste is dripping with that same hoppy fruit goodness. Moderate bitterness. Finishes pretty dry. Light mouthfeel with a lot of hop oiliness. This beer is absolutely packed with bright, juicy hop flavors. Delicious stuff.